[2] Berntsen (1979) notes that elders of the Purko-Kisongo Maasai relate that it was warriors of the Il Aimer age-set (c. 1870-1875) who blunted the attack of their northern neighbours the Ilaikipiak and then destroyed them as a social unit.
[1] Following one of the Purko-Ilaikipak raids on the Uasin Gishu, the warriors of the Purko and those of the Ilaikipiak fell out over the distribution of the captured cattle.
Incensed, the Ilaikipiak warriors, guided by Koikoti, raided the Purko and the other sections around Naivasha, driving them completely from the region.
[1] A number of accounts suggest that the Ilaikipiak allied with the Uasin Gishu to exact revenge on the Purko.
Stigand for instance noted that the final extinction of the Laikipia arose due to conflict with the southern Maasai.
[1] It is noted that when Mbatian was on the point of death, he called the elders of the Matapato, the district where he resided and among other prophesies, told them that he wished his successor to be the son to whom he would give the medicine man's insignia.
He is then reputed to have called his eldest son Sendenyo (also known as Senteu) and said to him "Come tomorrow morning for I wish to give you the medicine man's insignia".